VINYL RECORD DRYPOINT PRINTS

I have been making various printworks using old vinyl records as plates for drypoint engraving – scratching directly on the vinyl surface and then printing the result. Due to the fragile nature of drypoint-on-plastic, editions are kept small (usually editions of 10 or less). The earliest here were printed in Burgundy, France after a summer residency in Paris at the Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé (CNEAI), in 2008. Prints from NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2013) and Villa Arson (Nice, France, 2014) were mostly pulled directly by me… An ongoing series…